Today is my birthday ( Read more... )

Ikea is evil. I go in for a perfectly reasonable item or two (like a bathmat that no longer exists and a Poöpli (err, Dokument) pencil holder), and I come out with frivolous fun things in tow like a funky digital clock for my desk area for about five bucks more than I really needed to spend (actually, the chepeast little clocks in the same section ( Read more... )

The confusion of the possessive "its" (no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's" (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy,
-Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

Bloody work.

I need a vacation.

( Today my stunt ring came in the mail. )

I have ordered my wedding band's stunt double, which should be arriving in 5-14 business days from the jeweler in Israel. If this silver ring looks and, more importantly, feels good on my finger, then we'll go ahead and place the order for its white gold counterpart ( Read more... )

The good part of this entry will be out in the open:Bar Trivia contests are cooler than karaoke (and karaoke's really cool). This weekend, Cassie and I came up to Bel Air to take care of some business, and last night after Cassie left me for the night, I was bored. So I took a shot that somebody in Bel Air would be available to hang out. Fired ( Read more... )

Not only am I going to keep up with listing the books I read this year. I am writing up a quick impression of each as I finish it, and preserving it in what will be one honkin' huge Word file. It's January 11, and there are already three books down. There will probably be four by the end of the week, since I am now onto Shakespeare's "Midsummer ( Read more... )

Inspired by Erica, I am going to try and keep track of the books I read this year. However, I am not setting a resolution goal as she had.
Tuesday, January 3, and there is one down already: The Green Mile, counting the six serial books as one work.
Now I am on to Neal Stephenson Snow Crash. Yay books ( Read more... )

Posted on the Straight Dope Message Board at noon on 12/31/05, my entries for the 2006 Celebrity Death Pool1. Lou Rawls - Singer, battling lung and brain cancer. My gimme ( Read more... )